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It is unclear to me (1) what precisely diffeomorphism means and (2) what happens when all matter is removed from the spacetime. Sean Carrol says that: "the theory is free of "prior geometry" and there is no preferred coordinate system for spacetime." http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9712019v1.pdf page 138
Including this I imagine that removal of all matter means, that even space-time does not remain if all matter is removed. I also understood isham similarly
“However, the use of a fixed causal structure is an anathema to most general relativists and therefore, even if this approach to quantum gravity had worked (which it did not), there would still have been a strong compunction to reconstruct the theory in a way that does not employ any such background.”
http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9310031v1.pdf
But, some physicists claim that spacetime of Minkowski remains after all matter is removed. Besides, Carroll says also that "In SR or Newtonian physics, meanwhile, the existence of a preffered set of coordinates saves us from such ambiguities."
How it is with this?
Including this I imagine that removal of all matter means, that even space-time does not remain if all matter is removed. I also understood isham similarly
“However, the use of a fixed causal structure is an anathema to most general relativists and therefore, even if this approach to quantum gravity had worked (which it did not), there would still have been a strong compunction to reconstruct the theory in a way that does not employ any such background.”
http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9310031v1.pdf
But, some physicists claim that spacetime of Minkowski remains after all matter is removed. Besides, Carroll says also that "In SR or Newtonian physics, meanwhile, the existence of a preffered set of coordinates saves us from such ambiguities."
How it is with this?